Checking out a file: same user, different machine

[jmarsch]

I am running into some behavior with version 3.1.2 that I am sure we didn't have before.

Steps: (visual studio 2005, c# project, vault 3.1.2 client and server)

Check out a file on machine 1.
Log into machine 2 (in my case, its a virtual pc)
Check out the same file
Edit it
Check it in (all from machine 2).

Now diff the file on machine 1

Note that the file did not change in source control.

Now view the file on machine 2 and note that you have lost your changes.

Now notice that the file appears checked in on both machine 1 and machine 2, so your change set on machine 1 is effectively lost, unless you wrote down the name of every file that you had checked out.

[dan]

This is a known problem, and we'll add your report to the bug description. Note that when the file fails to checkin from Machine 2, it does get backed up into an _sgbak folder underneath your working folder, so your changes are not lost forever.

Sorry for the inconvenience on this, and we hope to address it in the next release.